Improvement in tongs for forging the arms on fifth-wheels



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Making Fifth Wheels. 4 *No "108,066. Patented 00:. 4,1870.

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WALES TERRELL, or ANSON-IA, CONNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 108,066, dated October 4, 1870. Q

IMPROVEMENT IN TONGS FOR FORGING THE ARMS ON FIFTH-WHEELS.

The Schedule referred to in these LettersPatent and making part of the same.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, lVALEs TERRELL, of Ansouia,.

in the countyof New Haven and State of Connecticut,'l1aveiii\-'ented a new Improvement; in Tongs for Forging Fifth-\Vheels; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with the accompanying. drawing and the letters of reference marked thereon, to be ai'ull, clear, and exact desoriptionof the same, and which said drawing constitutes part of this specification, and represents in Figure 1 a top view; p 1

Figure 2, aside view; andin V Figure 3, atop view, shoiving'the use of the tongs.

This invention relatesto an improvement in the construction of tongs for holding the blanks duringcertain, portions of the process of forging fifth-wheels for carriages, but may be used for other purposes where similar operations are required.

On one part of the fifth-wheel, arms to the clip are' forged, and eorrespondingarmson the other part, and

these arms are forged from metal of which the wheel is'c omposed, the arms beingturned at right angles to the wheel, short distance apart, and'flat upon the inside surfaces. 1

To shape these arms or clips is the objectof my invention, and consists in forming one jaw of the tongs so as to sit between the'two, arms, and allow the forgbi-ngof the arms upon the said jaw,.the other jaw constructed so as to clamp the wheel in position against the shaping-jaw. p

A is the shaping-jaw, fixed to a handle. B.

G, the clamping-jaw, fixed to a handle, D, the two handles pivoted together at a, in the usual manner for forging ton'gs. i

The jaw A extends up forward of the clampingjaw 0, so as to leave a space between the two jaws, as seenin fig. 2, the thickness of the jaw A corresponding to thedistance between the two arms.

The fifth-wheel blank E, as seen in fig. 3, is set between the two jaws, and the two arms, 6, of the said blank (the blank having been previously heated) are split or upset fromthe blank then, the operator, holding, the tongs, turns the two arms 0 down onto the jaw A,- as denoted in broken lines, fig. 3, the jaw A servingas a support for the shaping of the arms, and

defining the distanoebetween the two.

Difi'erent-sized fifth-wheelswill, of course, require difierent-sized tongs. v

The jaw 0 should be of sufficient length to form a firm support for the blank E.

I'clainras my inventi0n The herein described improved tongs, in which the jawA extends up forward of and at right angles to the jaw C, so that the blank may be clamped between the two said jaws, and the jaw A serve as a guide or form for turning-or shaping the projections on the blank, substantially in the manner and for the pur- 

